What attitude to Nature does Coleridge express in the Ode to Dejection? In what ways does this attitude differ from that of Wordsworth and from his own earlier attitude? 

A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear,

A stifled, drowsy, unimpassioned grief,

Which finds no natural outlet, no relief,

In word, or sigh, or tear—

O Lady! in this wan and heartless mood,

To other thoughts by yonder throstle woo’d,

All this long eve, so balmy and serene,

Have I been gazing on the western sky,

And its peculiar tint of yellow green:

And still I gaze—and with how blank an eye!

And those thin clouds above, in flakes and bars,

That give away their motion to the stars;

Those stars, that glide behind them or between,

Now sparkling, now bedimmed, but always seen:

Yon crescent Moon, as fixed as if it grew

In its own cloudless, starless lake of blue;

I see them all so excellently fair,

I see, not feel, how beautiful they are!

In the above lines of the poem ‘Dejection: An Ode’ by Coleridge, the poet further says that he is in a mood of deep sorrow. No beautiful object of Nature can charm him. In the absence of the inner joy in his heart, he does not feel the beauty of Natural objects. This grief and pain have been expressed effectively by these verses. The poet is full of very deep grief, which has so completely overpowered him that he does not feel its pang or pain anymore. The grief is void or empty, that is, it does not arouse the poetic feeling in any way. It is empty darkness in his heart out of which the poet cannot expect to come out. Due to this grief, he is becoming more and more drowsy and inactive. This grief has been described by the poet as ‘stifled, drowsy and impassioned.’ It does not arouse the poet even to weep or to heave sighs. The poet is not stirred or inspired.

Thus, though the poet is very much aggrieved, he is not in a position to give vent to his grief. Having lost his sense of feeling, Coleridge is very much dejected. He looks at the beautiful external objects of Nature. These had once inspired him but they no longer do so now. He gazes at the floating flakes of clouds, but his eyes are blank because ______ ___ ___ ____ _______ ________ __________ ______ _____.
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